Considering the almost spiritual hold that Anwar has on PKR, whichever of the three dreams captures the minds of PKR members and takes control, it is still the dream of the de facto leader that…
The postponement of the sending off ceremony of the pandas can been viewed in diplomatic fraternity as a "snub".
Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com
WHEN Chinese national Gao Huayun was kidnapped in…
Azly Rahman
A good philosophical movie ‘Noah’ is; classic arguments between Fate and Free Will, juxtaposed with the Epic of Gilgamesh I am currently discussing. Now I know how Noah looks like.…
Norman Fernandez
Lim Kit Siang today said that DAP is prepared to give a kindergarten course in politics to MCA President Liow Tiong Lai and his deputy Wee Ka Siong, who have riled up DAP by asking…
Oh, by the way, the Tunku died almost penniless and the government actually sued him for unpaid taxes, which would have made him the first bankrupt Prime Minister in Malaysian history. You see,…
We could do with some of our politicians emulating the political beliefs of the late Tony Benn, who was a strong advocate of ‘nationalisation’.
Zaid Ibrahim, The Star
ANTHONY Wedgwood Benn,…
Kee Thuan Chye
So stupid! Think can bluff the people ah? The other day I read the Gahmen said it gave a contract to Konsortium Prohawk Sdn Bhd to build and maintain the Kuala Lumpur Women and…
Tunku Abidin Muhriz, The Malay Mail Online
The prime minister’s comments supporting economic liberalisation in Asean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ National Colloquium on Malaysia’s…
Dina Zaman, The Malay Mail Online
The recent passing of activist Irene Fernandez was greeted with great sadness not just by activists but also the communities she worked with. “She did good,”…
Rashvinjeet S. Bedi, The Star
Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail could not resist but deliver an off-the-cuff “history lesson” during a recent event to announce his electoral pact with Rafizi…
Salleh Said Keruak
BARU-BARU ini, sementara menunggu penerbangan ke Kuala Lumpur di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu (KKIA), saya terjumpa YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dan YB Nurul…
I forecast that by 2029 both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat would no longer exist. Both would have imploded or disintegrated by then. The Constitutional Monarchy would still exist but it…
Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online
“So are you trying to hurt your old party?”
The quick lesson here is, if you are being recorded for a radio show, not to allow an old friend to be the…
The roots of extremism today, however, can be traced to ideas that began to appear in the eighteenth century in Arabia. The founder of Wahhabism, a particular orientation within Salafism, Muhammad…
It has always prided itself for that multiracial look.
Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com
I REMEMBER reading a campaign flyer for the 1999 general election which said the BN is "forced" to combine…
Karpal Singh
MCA deputy president, Datuk Dr. Wee Ka Siong, should not throw idle challenges requiring non-Muslim MPs in the DAP to state their stand on the private members bill proposed by PAS…
I believe Lee Kuan Yew is a brilliant politician and strategist. He first used the Communists and then he used Malaysia to gain independence from Britain. He then rounded up all the Communists and…
(MM) - “Service” as a word must have been mistranslated by Dewan Bahasa.
I mean where else do you know, where if you complain about poor service, you are likely to get “If you don't like it, go…
Jeyaseelen Anthony, The Malaysian Insider
Karpal Singh’s conviction for sedition recently has thrown Malaysia back into the days of the Court of Star Chambers in the 17th century where people…
Salleh Said Keruak
Lim Kit Siang said that Parliament should close down the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) since after spending RM300 million it is powerless to improve security in the…
I think I will just sit back and enjoy the show. It is so satisfying to be proven right. With Umno, PAS and the Malays in PKR, united in support of Hudud, and DAP, the non-Malays in PKR, MCA, MIC,…
The MH370 crisis has exposed the weaknesses of our public institutions and political leadership as nothing before it has done
Narinder Singh, FMT
The MH370 crisis will go down in history as…
Zaid Ibrahim
When former New Straits Times top dog Datuk Abdul Kadir Jasin described Dato’ Seri Najib Razak as “the Prime Minister with the worst performance in a general election since the May…
(TMI) - DAP, or Democratic Action Party, is still seen by many as a political organisation with a lot of Chinese leaders and members. Therefore, it is often perceived as a Chinese party.…
Karpal Singh
The insistence by Kelantan Menteri Besar, Datuk Ahmad Yakob, that Kelantan will go ahead for PAS to move a private member’s bill in Parliament ‘to seek a declaration that the…
Are you all idiots or what? Why would I want to go back to Malaysia when I can remain here in the UK and watch movies about God committing genocide and killing more people in 40 days than the…
Gobind Singh Deo
I call upon the Menteri Besar of Selangor, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, to respond to the memorandum against the proposed construction of the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway…
Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily
As we tighten our belts and at the government's insistence look to change our lifestyle in the face of rising costs of living and shrinking subsidies, cronies or…
Salleh Said Keruak
The kidnapping incident involving two women, including a Chinese tourist in Singamata Resort, Semporna late last Wednesday shocked the whole of Malaysia. Nobody expects a…
Ex-Convent Girl
It’s April 4th and even as the grim task of underwater searches begin for the black box of MH370, Anwar Ibrahim is chatting up reporters of The Telegraph UK and Sky News,…